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Open Standards for Cell Phone Components

Posted by timothy on from the snap-together dept.

PoisonousPhat writes "STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, Nokia and ARM have formed the Mobile Industry Processor Interface Alliance (MIPI), who seek to define open standards for cell phone components. Forget that expensive camera phone, just plug in a third-party device." Update: 07/30 18:13 GMT by T : Thanks to Alain Mellan for the link to STMicroelectronics.

4 of 139 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    although some would say too much information

    Well that depends on whether you classify porn as information ;)

  2. We have the resistor color code ! by Goody · · Score: 2, Funny

    What more standards do you need ???

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  3. Re:Motorola? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    >Motorola... The next Xerox?

    Who's Xerox?

  4. Re:Good idea, this has worked so well for laptops by Mr_Silver · · Score: 4, Funny
    This has worked so well with laptops

    What are you talking about? Beside the hard drive and PCMCIA, there is no standard.

    He was being sarcastic. Don't worry, two other people missed it too :)

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